Category Archives: Poetry

Why workers must work harder

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Sean Thompson

I’ve written before about my huge admiration for Leon Rosselson, but I’m not apologising for mentioning him again. This is one of his poems from the eighties, entitled ‘Why workers must work harder, produce more and ask for less’. Quite. … Continue reading →

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Know Thy Enemy

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Sean Thompson

I first came across Christopher Logue when, in 1963, a friend played me Red Bird, an EP (an extended play 7 inch record – a format now known only to pensioners and vinyl geeks) of Logue reading some of his … Continue reading →

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The Buddha’s parable of the burning house – Brecht

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Sean Thompson

Guatama the Buddha taught The doctrine of greed’s wheel to which we are bound, and advised That we should shed all craving and thus Undesiring enter the nothingness that he called Nirvana. What is it like, this nothingness, Master? Every … Continue reading →

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